Note that, in most cases, the use­ful­ness of
the .tds.zip is tran­si­tory: most mod­ern
dis­tri­bu­tions pro­vide most (free) pack­ages, so that af­ter a day
or so, a new (ver­sion of a) pack­age will be avail­able via the
dis­tri­bu­tion's up­date mech­a­nism.

Ac­tion

Authors who do not wish to ex­per­i­ment should con­tinue what they
are do­ing. We ask that au­thors wish­ing to try TDS pack­ag­ing do
this.

As usual, up­load a .zip or a .tar.gz
bun­dle of your ma­te­rial. Lay the ma­te­rial out in the
tra­di­tional way.

In the top level of your bun­dle place the file
<pkg id>.tds.zip that con­tains the TDS
pack­ag­ing of your ma­te­ri­als. We will not in­stall this in the
reg­u­lar brows­ing tree but in­stead will put it be­low
the install/ sub­tree.

Ex­am­ple

We in­stall into macros/latex/contrib/xxx the files
README.md, xxx.ins,
xxx.dtx, and xxx.pdf. We gen­er­ate
a macros/latex/contrib/xxx.zip so archive vis­i­tors
can down­load all these files at once.
The xxx.tds.zip file which un­zips into the TDS
lay­out shown ear­lier we put
in install/macros/latex/contrib/xxx.tds.zip.